No sitting American President had more enemies than Abraham Lincoln. He had a great strategy for destroying them; he befriended them. In fact, one of them would eventually take his life. Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) were enemies,...
“His Accidency“, “Ex-Vice President“, “Acting President“, were some of the numerous nicknames given to the 10th President of America, John Tyler, who was the first Vice President to succeed the Presidency without being elected. John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January...
William Henry Harrison Sr. (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer, a principal contributor in the War of 1812, and the ninth President of the United States (March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841). Harrison was...
Little, shrewd, wily and Red-haired, the eighth President of America (1837-1841), Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862), was the first American citizen to become President having been born six years after independence, in 1782. Others before him...
Peter Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. He was the only family member with this abnormality, both his parents and his older brother Jonathan having the right heights. Despite being just 4 feet 5 inches (135 cm), he...
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general...
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767–February 23, 1848) was an American statesman who served as a diplomat, minister and ambassador to foreign nations, treaty negotiator, United States Senator, U.S. Representative (Congressman) from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States...
Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike (December 17, 1917-October 26, 1983), B.A., M.A., PhD.,Hon. LLD, Hon. D.Litt., Hon. D.Sc., Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African History, Harvard University, was the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and roaming Ambassador of...
Niccolò Paganini (October 27, 1782 – May 27, 1840) is considered one of the greatest violinists of all time. He was a virtuoso, performing his first concert at age eleven. His great technical ability revolutionized violin technique across Europe. When he...
On December 11, 1936, Edward VIII (1894-1972), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Emperor of India (January 20-December 11, 1936) abdicated the throne for a woman he loved –an American, Wallis Warfield Simpson (1896-1986), who...
Born in Kano, on April 10, 1957 in the then Northern Region of British Nigeria, Aliko Dangote was born to Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata. An ethnic Hausa from Kano State, he showed his love for business by selling sweets...
Sam Henshaw Ibiam (April 4, 1925—December 2, 2015), popularly known as “The Black Magnet” during his playing days, was a Nigerian footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the pioneer Nigerian national football team who were regarded to as the “1949...
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. In 1824, the capital of Liberia was named Monrovia after Monroe,...
